The interest group Critical Adoptees Front Europe (CAFE) is demanding official apologies from the government after images have surfaced of South Korean children arriving in our country completely upset, to be handed over to their adoptive parents. CAFE also wants a committee to be established. That message 'Het Nieuwsblad' Tuesday.

The images date from 1981. According to Yung Fierens (45), chairwoman of the interest group Critical Adoptees Front Europe (CAFE), these images show that even then it was already known what malpractice was happening. For example, children were sold and false birth certificates were also drawn up.

“We request an official apology from the government,” said Fierens. “In addition, we want a truth commission that investigates what went wrong with the intercountry adoptions. And finally, we want support in the search for our parents.”

“As the Flemish Minister of Welfare, Public Health and Family, I understand the questions and concerns about abuses in the past,” responds Hilde Crevits (CD&V). “Flanders has been co-authorized for intercountry adoption since 2012. Previously, this was exclusively a federal competence. There is now a federal debate about how to deal with these abuses.” The minister also points out that at the beginning of June the House unanimously asked the government to start an investigation into illegal adoptions in our country.

Crevits adds that last year, on the basis of a report by an expert panel, the Flemish government laid down the guidelines within which international adoption is still possible in the future. “We try to exclude abuses and abuses as much as possible,” says Crevits.

Gather as many of the approximately 4,000 Belgians adopted from South Korea as possible, and then look together at recently surfaced reportage images from more than forty years ago. That is what Yung Fierens wants to achieve. “These images show that people already knew what suffering was being done to us. It's time we finally get recognition for that."

Timeschange,systemschange. Weevolvefrom generationsto generations.

In nearly 15 years as a volunteer group, we have become a known value in the adoption world, where we

have given everyone the opportunity to give a voice around and for adoption and foster-related groups on

our platform. We want to make clear what adoption entails and what impact it has on the various parties.

We aim to strengthen international and domestic adoptions worldwide so that we can provide more

To some, adoption may seem like a no-brainer solution.

They assume that, for every childless, barren couple there is an "unwanted" baby "available" to fill their home with the pitter-patter that would-be parents crave.

But adoption is a complex beast and rarely as simple as pairing an orphaned child with a barren couple (nor should it be).

The reality in South Africa is that nuclear families are the exception and not the rule. According to Statistics South Africa, this is largely due to legacy issues, labour migration and low marital rates.

And, while there are many other factors that play a role in diverse family arrangements, what it means is that one-fifth (21.3%) of the 19.7-million children in South Africa do not live with their parents.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that a biological mother can also be an “adoptive mother”. The ruling came in a case where a woman’s plea for adopting her daughter from her first marriage, after she tied the knot again, was dismissed by a Bhiwani family court.

During the course of hearing, the Bench of Justice Ritu Bahri and Justice Ashok Kumar Verma was told that the biological parents got a divorce vide judgment and decree dated April 25, 2016, passed by Sonepat District Judge (Family Court).

Thereafter, the mother solemnised the second marriage in September 2017. The two then filed the application under the provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act for the seven-year-old girl’s adoption.

Along with the application and other documents, permission/consent by the biological parents for surrendering the minor’s custody to the step-parent, duly allowed and “stamped by the seal” of the Bhiwani Child Welfare Committee, was placed on record.

The minor’s consent that she wanted to stay with the biological mother and her second husband was also placed on record. But the application was rejected on the ground that a biological mother cannot become a mother in “dual status” — a biological mother as well as adoptive mother.

The High Court of Kerala has decided to examine the legal issue whether an order can be

passed to conduct the DNA test of a child in a case of paternity dispute.

The Court will examine if passing such a direction will infringe a child's right to privacy,

which has been declared as a fundamental right under Article 21 by the Supreme Court in

the KS Puttaswamy case. The impact of Section 112 of the Indian Evidence Act 1872,

New York!

Great gray city of misty dawns under bridges, of romantic taxi rides in the rain. City full of dreams, and psychoanalysts to interpret them. City of passions buried under the burdens of civilization like Croton water pipes, and bursting to the surface about as often.

New York the mysterious, where a white rag fluttering in a window high above Fifth Avenue may be just a white rag, or may be Woody Allen waving to Mia Farrow in her apartment across Central Park. New York lovers hide in plain sight, protected by the city's anonymous bustle. Where else but to a basketball game at Madison Square Garden could one of the world's most recognizable celebrities go to hold hands with his lover's college-age daughter, soon to become his new mistress?

And where else should all this come to light than in that Gothic shrine of old New York, the Plaza hotel? Making his first appearance before the press in years, the 56-year-old filmmaker acknowledged that he had transferred his affections from Farrow, 47, to her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn; that he was suing Farrow for custody of their three children, and that he had been accused of molesting his adopted daughter, 7-year-old Dylan O'Sullivan Farrow-an accusation he called "totally false and outrageous." As a result, New York was probably the only city in the world last week where serious, educated, intelligent people were paying almost no attention to the topless pictures of the Duchess of York.

For that matter, Allen's troubles almost drove Fergie off the front pages of the London papers. Not to speak of the French, who regard Allen as virtually another Jerry Lewis, only more cerebral. "We smile when this happens in Monaco, but Mia and Woody are the model couple," said one French film promoter. For Republicans, the event was an irresistible illustration of what they were running against when they talked about "family values." "Woody Allen is currently having nonincest with a nondaughter for whom he is a nonfather," Rep. Newt Gingrich told a Georgia crowd last week on the president's campaign trail, "because they [Democrats? or just New Yorkers?] have no concept of families ... it's a weird environment out there." About the only world-class city that wasn't consumed with the affair was Los Angeles, where the domestic troubles of a director whose films gross under $50 million are regarded as beneath gossip.

Poet Lemn Sissay, with the help of London’s Foundling Museum, has gathered 59 athletes, artists, CEOs and others who, like him, spent part of their childhoods in care. The result is an inspiring photograph for young people in care today

Introduction by Claire Armitstead. Interviews by Killian Fox

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“Ionce was Christopher Goldsmith,” reads a poem, neatly typed out on one side of a piece of A4 paper. On the back another poem is handwritten, composed on the train into London this morning, fresh on the page. They’re part of a poem-a-day project by their author Paul Cookson, who was born in the north of England and adopted shortly afterwards by a family in Essex. “Christopher Goldsmith lived for a month,” he writes, “then quietly died, slipped away/ Almost never existed… Christopher died so that I might have life/ and have it more abundantly.”

Cookson is one of the success stories of the UK’s care system. He was the eldest of three adopted siblings, all from different families. They were happy, he says. “None of us have ever gone back to look for our birth families.” But his writing tells a subtly different story: “And so, nearly half a century later/ nearer to the end of the journey/ than the beginning,/ those questions arise/ and may remain unanswered/ but arise anyway.”

RDC adoption

26 November 2015 ·

Suite à la réunion MAE/MAI, il faut continuer à interpeller vos députés. Exprimez-vous, nous pouvons tous demander de l'aide en faisant part de notre parcours et notre souffrance mais surtout celui de nos enfants. On pense très fort à eux mais plus en silence!!!

1- Assemblée Nationale :

1.1 Philippe Baumel (Président du groupe amitié parlementaire franco-congolais) + Claude Bartolone : pour l'organisation d'une mission parlementaire en RDC

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